In physics, the von Neumann entropy, named after John von Neumann, is an extension of the concept of Gibbs entropy from classical statistical mechanics...
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John von Neumann (/vɒn ˈnɔɪmən/ von NOY-mən; Hungarian: Neumann János Lajos [ˈnɒjmɒn ˈjaːnoʃ ˈlɒjoʃ]; December 28, 1903 – February 8, 1957) was a Hungarian...
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The von Neumann architecture—also known as the von Neumann model or Princeton architecture—is a computer architecture based on a 1945 description by John...
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The von Neumann–Wigner interpretation, also described as "consciousness causes collapse", is an interpretation of quantum mechanics in which consciousness...
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John von Neumann's universal constructor is a self-replicating machine in a cellular automaton (CA) environment. It was designed in the 1940s, without...
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neighborhood is named after John von Neumann, who used it to define the von Neumann cellular automaton and the von Neumann universal constructor within it...
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Heinrich Neumann Ritter von Héthárs (10 June 1873, in Héthárs (Lipany), then Hungary, now Slovakia – 6 November 1939, in New York City) was the foremost...
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John von Neumann (/vɒn ˈnɔɪmən/ von NOY-mən; Hungarian: Neumann János Lajos [ˈnɒjmɒn ˈjaːnoʃ ˈlɒjoʃ]; December 28, 1903 – February 8, 1957) was a Hungarian-American...
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debt conference in Paris in 1931-32. Following the 1932 Prussian coup d'état by the administration of Reich Chancellor Franz von Papen, Neumann was transferred...
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Jersey. It is sometimes called the von Neumann machine, since the paper describing its design was edited by John von Neumann, a mathematics professor at both...
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Self-replicating machine (redirect from Von Neumanns)
solar power satellites in space. The von Neumann probe is one theoretical example of such a machine. Von Neumann also worked on what he called the universal...
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John von Neumann (1903–1957) was a Hungarian-American mathematician, physicist, computer scientist, engineer and polymath. He had perhaps the widest coverage...
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pathways for instructions and data. It is often contrasted with the von Neumann architecture, where program instructions and data share the same memory...
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Ergodic theory (redirect from Von Neumann's ergodic theorem)
Two of the most important theorems are those of Birkhoff (1931) and von Neumann which assert the existence of a time average along each trajectory. For...
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invented by John von Neumann in 1945. A detailed description and analysis of bottom-up merge sort appeared in a report by Goldstine and von Neumann as early as...
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designed to recreate the computation- and construction-universality of von Neumann's CA but with fewer states: 8 instead of 29. Codd showed that it was possible...
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became known as Von Neumann architecture. Since 1950, the von Neumann model provided uniformity in subsequent computer designs. The von Neumann architecture...
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Connes embedding problem (category Von Neumann algebras)
problem, formulated by Alain Connes in the 1970s, is a major problem in von Neumann algebra theory. During that time, the problem was reformulated in several...
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concept was originally discovered in the 1940s by Stanislaw Ulam and John von Neumann while they were contemporaries at Los Alamos National Laboratory. While...
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Markov odometer (redirect from Von Neumann–Kakutani adding machine)
k_{n}=2} for all n {\displaystyle n} is termed the dyadic odometer, the von Neumann–Kakutani adding machine or the dyadic adding machine. The topological...
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completing the loop, which then disconnects from its parent. In 1952 John von Neumann created the first cellular automaton (CA) with the goal of creating a...
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Middle-square method (category John von Neumann)
method was invented by John von Neumann, and was described by him at a conference in 1949. In the 1949 talk, Von Neumann quipped that "Anyone who considers...
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consulted with von Neumann on what instruction set to implement. Clippinger had thought of a three-address architecture while von Neumann proposed a one-address...
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Charts." Douglas Hartree in 1949 explained that Herman Goldstine and John von Neumann had developed a flowchart (originally, diagram) to plan computer programs...
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Universal Turing machine (redirect from Turing-Complete Von Neumann Machine)
machine—in the same "memory" as the input data, strongly influenced John von Neumann's conception of the first American discrete-symbol (as opposed to analog)...
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many years at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. When John von Neumann sought to build one of the first digital computers at the Institute for...
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John von Neumann, based on a lecture von Neumann gave in 1948 titled The General and Logical Theory of Automata. Dyson expanded on von Neumann's automata...
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thought of the intuitionist school as developed by L. E. J. Brouwer John von Neumann (Berlin), presented the thought of the formalist school as developed...
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Wiener, John von Neumann and Lawrence J. Fogel, Heinz von Foerster was an architect of cybernetics and one of the members of the Macy conferences, eventually...
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May 2011), Lars von Trier – Conférence de presse – Melancholia, archived from the original on 30 October 2021, retrieved 28 July 2016 "Von Trier 'persona...
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